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Bombshell - Teaser Trailer (2019)
Starring Academy Award-winner Charlize Theron, Academy Award-winner Nicole Kidman, Academy Award nominee John Lithgow and Academy Award nominee Margot Robbie, based on the real scandal, Bombshell is a revealing look inside the most powerful and controversial media empire of all time; Fox News, and the explosive story of the women who brought down the infamous man who created it.
Directed by: Jay Roach
Starring: Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie, John Lithgow, Kate McKinnon, Connie Britton, Mark Duplass, Rob Delaney, Malcolm McDowell, Allison Janney, Alice Eve, Alanna Ubach, Stephen Root, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Elisabeth Rohm, Ashley Greene
Release date: December 20, 2019
Tradition, squandered by youth.
If…., is a film by Lindsay Anderson, a director so meticulous, he’s able to capture the non-sequential spontaneous acts of adolescent boys and frame it in such a way that forces the audience to admire each sequence in the movie.
This film follows the path of students entering their senior year at a boarding school in England during its post WWII era. They are constantly drilled to uphold tradition as well as pride for their country. As adolescents they naturally rebel against the system in typical fashion; drinking, smoking, sneaking off campus…Their expectations for life and their school eventually go completely awry as their own boredom takes over and they plan to lash out violently towards their fellow classmates as well as teachers.
Lindsay Anderson’s vision for the film is a cinematographic masterpiece, in which he portrays an err of caution towards Britain and their traditionalism as they needlessly force old values onto their youths. And grant privilege to those who are undeserving and solely given privileges just because of their birth rights.
Anarchy, is the film’s greatest prescursor as the main characters often break the rules of the strict boarding school by intentionally going against all of its teachings. Their dormitory is even transformed with pictures of war and violence, as its contents decorate their walls; giving clue to the audience that these boys are “lost” and are seeking a greater focal point for their adolescent mind sets. They are seeking for something more, something to fight for and believe in, but cannot find due to the rigid nature of the traditions they must live by.
Like all films that go against archaic traditions and enforce progressive values, the film itself, in its storytelling is different. From the same school of thought as Godard, the film bounces from black and white to color; I tried to think really hard what the director’s intentions were behind this ploy, but couldn’t quite come up with a reason other then the fact that whenever the black and white sequences were occurring, the most simple and mundane tasks were being displayed on screen.
If…., is a great example of a film with not much going on for the majority of its duration, but builds upon performance and its content; the director does a great job with shot selection for he must have had a good working relationship with the cinematographer as it shows in each scene. The film stands out as social commentary and art, the majority of the film is memorable visually in my mind like a photo memorabilia. Lastly, as a side note; it goes without saying, this must have been a film J.K. Rowling scrutinized over for a lot of the details in the film, down to even how the characters are dressed remind me heavily of Harry Potter…
4/4
-DK
“Are you ready for a bit of the old ultraviolence?”
Wacky, under-appreciated comic book adaptation, Tank Girl – about a dystopian hero, played by Lori Petty, who takes on the tyranny of a mega-corporation run by villainous Malcolm McDowell – dropped on March 31, 1995.
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A Clockwork Orange, 1971
dir. Stanley Kubrick
Firestarter: Rekindled(2002)
This is a Movie Health Community evaluation. It is intended to inform people of potential health hazards in movies (and occasional TV shows) and does not reflect the quality of the film or show itself. The information presented here has not been reviewed by any medical professionals.
Firestarter: Rekindled has a few sudden flashbacks that use flashing lights to transition between scenes. Early on, there is a party scene with severe color-changing strobe lights. There are severe flickering lights in three scenes: one where a character is suffocated with a plastic bag, one where one woman faces three armed people in a hallway, and one where a woman in a hospital bed is asked about her powers.
All of the camera work in this miniseries is either stationary or very smooth.
Flashing Lights: 7/10. Motion Sickness: 0/10.
TRIGGER WARNING: An elderly man lustfully pursues a woman he knew when she was a child. One child faces agonizing consequences of their own actions.
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Image ID: A poster for Firestarter: Rekindled
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“Looking for God on the back of a tour bus?”
